In the rambling, yellow-walled palace at Rabat, red-liveried Negro bandsmen of the royal "Black Guard" beat a tattoo and blared fanfares. Eleven men filed through the palace courtyard, up a marble staircase and into an ornate chamber reeking of incense. There, seated on his gilt and brocaded throne, King Mohammed V last week welcomed the members of Morocco's fourth government in less than three years of independence.
In the month since the fall of Premier Ahmed Balafrej's conservative government, the King had been forced to shop intensively for a Cabinet that would...
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